Past Classes

2017

February 9th, 2017 Introduction to Traditional Witchcraft, 5:30- 7:00 PM. Asheville NC. Private location emailed upon registration. Learn the basics and history of Non-Wiccan, European Traditional Witchcraft. This class is open to all peoples.Sign up on ourcontact formand receive directions, space is limited.

March 5th, 2017The Poison Plants, Raven and Crone4 - 6 PM. Asheville, NC. Historically, witches used a variety of plants in their ointments, brews and unguents, but none so maligned as the Solanaceae. In this class we'll talk about the wicked Solanaceae and their dark historical associations with witchcraft. A basic understanding of botany is helpful but not required. 5-20$.

March 19, 2017The Rites of Spring,11 AM - 2 PM.Barnardsville, NC. Private location emailed upon registration.The first in a series of four classes focusing on the seasonal gardening, wild foods, recipes, rites and rituals of the four seasons. Reconnect with the ancient agricultural year. Our Spring class will focus on Vernal Equinox traditions, folklore, gardening, herbs and stories of the season.Sign up on ourcontact formand receive directions, space is limited.

April 16th, 2017Bioregional Nutrition: The Human Diet in Place, Villagers, Asheville, NC. 5:30 PM- 7:30 PM.Learn about the foods and nourishment that surround us in Southern Appalachia and how eating locally helps to support our planet, our bodies and our minds. A combination of understanding basic human nutrition, foraging, sustainable agriculture, and how it all works together to create lasting health and food security. Body positive, does mention and discuss humane butchering, hunting, and other meat based diets.

April 29th, 2017Wild Foraging Walk.White Oak Pastures, Bluffton, GA.1-4 PM.Learn and explore the wonderful world of Wild Foods. Georgia is home to an incredible diversity of wild edible plants and mushrooms. With professional forager and ethnobotanist, Becky Beyer, wander the lands of White Oak Pastures and gather the uses, recipes and folklore of the Georgia flora. Finish with a Wild Food Cookery demonstration with Chef Reid Harrison with your gathered bounty. Learn a new skill in survival and self sufficiency and empower yourself with this amazing skill. ​May 5 - 7th, 2017Wild Edibles Foraging Adventure. Asheville area, NC.During this three-day backpacking adventure near Asheville, NC, we will spend some time hiking and a lot of time learning plant identification and foraging wild edibles and medicinals. We will pause by the trail on our plant walks to meet edible weeds and plants in their natural habitats, learn about their nutritional and medicinal properties, practice sustainable harvesting, prepare wild edible plants over an open fire, and feast upon the taste of the wild! We’ll even touch on wilderness survival. Sign up on Wild Abundance'swebsite.

May 17th, 2017Planning your Garden for Year Round Abundance.Villagers, Asheville, NC. 6:30 PM- 8:30 PM.When you begin gardening more seriously, a lot of questions come up. How do I organize all of this!? I've made some helpful tools and tables to get you firmly grasping how much to plant, when, and where. We'll focus on planning for vegetables and address small fruits, perennial vegetables, wild foods and more. A helpful booklet with all this and more will be included. $5-20 per person, sliding scale

June 4th, 2017 The Folkloric Uses of Wood: Wand Carving, Stang Making and Tree Charms. 11 AM - 2 PM.Barnardsville, NC. Private location emailed upon registration.We'll explore traditional Appalachian uses of wood and make a variety of magical wooden tools and charms straight from the leaves of history. Rowan, ash, willow, sassafras, there are many woody allies that hail from a diverse ancestral use and have come to color the pages of the Appalachian Magical Grimoire. ​June 9th— June 11th 2017Viridis Geni Symposium, Damascus, OR.Lecture and Workshop: Appalachian RootsMusical Performance Saturday Night

June 18th, 2017The Revels of Summer.11 AM - 2 PM.Barnardsville, NC. Private location emailed upon registration.The second in our series of four classes focusing on the seasonal gardening, wild foods, recipes, rites and rituals of the four seasons. Reconnect with the ancient agricultural year. Our Summer class will focus on Solstice/ Midsummer traditions, folklore, gardening, herbs, and rituals of the season.

October 11th, 2017Witchlore in Appalachia. 11 AM - 2 PM.Barnardsville NC. Private location emailed upon registration. What does folklore have to tell us about the Witch in Appalachia? What did he or she do? And how did they do it? What makes an Appalachian Witch? We'll learn spells gathered from the pages of Southern Appalachian folklore and stories of what Witches did in the dark.

October 14th, 2017 The Harvests of Autumn. 11 AM - 2 PM.Barnardsville, NC. Private location emailed upon registration.The third in our series of four classes focusing on the seasonal gardening, wild foods, recipes, rites and rituals of the four seasons. Reconnect with the ancient agricultural year. Our Fall class will focus on Samhain and Allantide traditions, folklore, gardening, herbs, and rituals of the season.

October 18th, 2017.The Poison Path: Poison Plants of Appalachia. 11 AM - 2 PM.Barnardsville, NC. Private location emailed upon registration.The Poison Path, first coined by mystic plant man Dale Pendell, is a path of wortcunning that requires knowledge and respect for some of the more dangerous plants in our pantheons. While henbane, datura, mandrake and other Solanaceous plants often dominate these discussions, what bioregional plants occupy similar energies here in the Souther Appalachians? Plants like poke, mayapple and sassafras await us to show us that what can kill can also cure.

November 5th, 2017Introduction to Defense Against the Dark Arts. 11 AM - 2 PM.Barnardsville, NC. Private location emailed upon registration.There is darkness all around us. And that is ok. Not all things are love and light. Here is how to defend yourself against them. We'll cover grounding and shielding, charms for defense of the self, home, vehicle, and others. We'll also begin to delve into undead spirits, non-human entities, and land wights. Of course, we'll meet some plants who can aid us on the way. ​

​November 12th, 2017The Herbs of Hildegard von Bingen: Herbal Medicine in the Middle Ages. 11 AM - 2 PM.Barnardsville, NC. Private location emailed upon registration.Meet Hildegard von Bingen, mystic, nun, and herbalist. We will meet and make some of her best remedies and discuss her philosophy to healing. Come prepared to taste and create healing foods and herbal remedies from the Early Middles Ages in Germany. Please indicate any allergies on the sign up form below.

November 15th, 2017Traditional Witchcraft Mini SeriesI: The History of Traditional Witchcraft. 11 AM - 2 PM.Barnardsville, NC. Private location emailed upon registration.This is the first of our first Witchcraft mini series. This is a crash course in Traditional Witchcraft from the British Isle and Northern Europe. As a person of European ancestry I teach from this perspective as that is my lineage, but all are welcome and encouraged who feel called by the Horned Piper. We'll start with the history of modern Traditional Witchcraft and meet people like Robert Cochrane, Doreen Valiente, Michael Howard and many more.

November 18th, 2017Traditional Witchcraft Mini SeriesII: The Wheel of the Year. 11 AM - 2 PM.Barnardsville, NC. Private location emailed upon registration.This class with cover in depth the 8 agricultural holidays which go by many names that are practiced in modern Traditional witchcraft. Customs, folklore, history and recipes will be shared for days such as Candlemas, Allantide and Samhain.

November 20th, 2017Traditional Witchcraft Mini SeriesIII: Spellcraft. 11 AM - 2 PM.Barnardsville, NC. Private location emailed upon registration.This class will focus on the basics of finding, understanding and casting spells from both historical sources and creating your own. We'll learn a few classic spells from the Early Modern period as well as some Appalachian folk magical workings. This should give you a basic grasp of how magic operates, and where it has lived for centuries.

November 26th, 2017Traditional Witchcraft Mini SeriesIV: Wortcunning. 11 AM - 2 PM.Barnardsville, NC. Private location emailed upon registration.Learn the basics of the magical uses of herbs. Wortcunning is the Green Arte. The path that is dotted with Ivy. We'll meet and make magic with a variety of local plants and see how they can be used in magic while looking into the past at some classical plants of the witches.

November 29th, 2017Traditional Witchcraft Mini SeriesV: Amulets and Talismans. 11 AM - 2 PM.Barnardsville, NC. Private location emailed upon registration.Our final class in the Traditional Witchcraft Mini series. We'll use the Spell and Herbs we've met to create Amulets and Talismans from both historical sources and learn to create our own with plants and materials from the natural world. Magic is only as useful as you make it by doing it. Not just reading about it.

December 1st, 2017Introduction to Defense Against the Dark Arts. 6:30 PM- 8:30 PM.Johnson City, TN. Generations Emporium.There is darkness all around us. And that is ok. Not all things are love and light. Here is how to defend yourself against them. We'll cover grounding and shielding, charms for defense of the self, home, vehicle, and others. We'll also begin to delve into undead spirits, non-human entities, and land wights. Of course, we'll meet some plants who can aid us on the way. ​​December 3rd, 2017Appalachian Folk Medicine. 11 AM - 2 PM.Barnardsville, NC. Private location emailed upon registration.Learn the fundamentals of Appalachian Folk medicine as a living practice. What makes our region and folk healing practices unique? The broad cultural influences from European humoral medicine to West African spiritual traditions. Key plant species used and classic remedies will be covered and we'll make a few ourselves. Come ready to taste, mix, touch and smell barks, powders, teas and syrups.

December 6th, 2017Defense Against the Dark Arts: Spirit Traps. 6 PM - 8:30 PM.Barnardsville, NC. Private location emailed upon registration.Did you like the Intro to Defense Against the Dark Arts? Let's go deeper with a variety of methods and charms to catch and remove spirits from places they may be bothersome in. We'll cover construction, consecration and disposal of a few types of spirit traps to aid in keeping land, houses and cars free from interference from the other side. Materials provided.

December 11th, 2017Traditional Witchcraft Mini SeriesV: Amulets and Talismans. 11 AM - 2 PM.Barnardsville, NC. Private location emailed upon registration.Our final class in the Traditional Witchcraft Mini series. We'll use the Spell and Herbs we've met to create Amulets and Talismans from both historical sources and learn to create our own with plants and materials from the natural world. Magic is only as useful as you make it by doing it. Not just reading about it.

December 13th, 2017Defense Against the Dark Arts: Witch Bottles and Land Protection. 11 AM - 2 PM.Barnardsville, NC. Private location emailed upon registration.Invoking and honoring the genius loci, or land wightsof your property can help aid in its protection from both meddling humans and non-humans alike. We'll learn the history of the witches bottle from a folk magical perspective and examine rituals like 'nailing it down' and other powerful ways to seek protection for the land we love. We'll also touch on topics of bioregional animism and meeting and cultivating relationships with land spirits to aid us in rites of protection.​---------------------

March 27, 2016The Rites of Spring, 11 AM - 3 PM. Weaverville, NC. The first in a series of four classes focusing on the seasonal gardening, wild foods, recipes, rites and rituals of the four seasons. Reconnect with the ancient agricultural year. Our Spring class will focus on Vernal Equinox traditions, folklore, gardening, herbs and stories of the season.

April 16, 2016Intensive Gardening Techniques, 11 AM - 3 PM. Weaverville, NC.Learn to maximize your small space garden or farm with a combination of techniques from Biointensive, French Intensive and Permaculture practices.

May 20, 2016Bioregional Nutrition: The Human Diet in Place, 11 AM - 3 PM Weaverville, NC.Learn about the foods and nourishment that surround us in Southern Appalachia and how eating locally helps to support our planet, our bodies and our minds. A combination of understanding basic human nutrition, foraging, sustainable agriculture, and how it all works together to create lasting health and food security. Body positive, does mention and discuss humane butchering, hunting, and other meat based diets.

May 22 - 27, 2016Ancestral Foods CookingWild Abundance School. Barnardsville, NC. A week of amazing classes from gardening to charcuterie. Click title for details and how to sign up!

June 6, 2016Intensive Gardening Techniques, 11 AM - 3 PM. Weaverville, NC.Learn to maximize your small space garden or farm with a combination of techniques from Biointensive, French Intensive and Permaculture practices.

June 8, 2016Next Level Spoon Carving, 11 AM - 3 PM. Weaverville, NC. Using a variety of Appalachian hardwoods and British Woodland tradition, we will focus on the intermediate spoon carver. Bring your own tools or use ours.

February 5-8thThe Florida Earthskills Gathering Hawthorne, FLFish Net MakingTeaching the art of making a fishing net and talking about net making history. Successional Garden PlanningGrow food year round! I'll show you how to plan it.

April All MonthGarden School Barnardsville, NCA few weeks of intensive gardening classes with Natalie Bogwalker.

June 5th 5:30 PM Introduction to Traditional Witchcraft Asheville NCThis class is open to all levels and ages, so far as one can pay attention respectfully. Learn the bascis and history of Traditional Witchcraft. At the Raven and Crone, 555 Merrimon Ave Asheville NC.